OK Guys, I got a chance to play with the 2.0 beta today. Some Constants: Flex-Radio 3000 Firmware 2.0.1.2 Dummy Load 160 meter loop with 4 to 1 balun. Cubex Mantis Quad 2 elements on 40,30 and 4 elements 20,17,15,12,10 Cubex 4 elements 6 meter quad.
To start out I installed on my main SDR operating computer. Quad core windows 7 Pro 64 bit system. All went well, but it did stutter a bit. (Now before Neal says it always good to check the DPC. ) I found the Ethernet driver was causing a nasty 5000+ spike. A quick check with HP found the driver had been updated. It solved the the issue. I first verified operation by selecting the dummy load and monitoring with my service monitor. The I switched to the 160 Meter loop and attempted to tune each band. I had no difficulty and made a few contacts. Checked on the other antennas, all worked well. I did a CW test, found for my slow CW (25 WPM or less) it work well. Secondly, I installed on an older laptop with 32bit XP Pro system. Processor was 780 Mhz with 2Gig memory. All went well and all the above tests showed ok. Then things got interesting, I installed it on my traveling work computer. This has Windows 7 Quad core machine. I could not get PowerSDR 2.0 to run more than a few seconds. It would restart and promptly quit. After the above successes, I was curious as to what the differences were and what the problem was. I decided to look at the Firewire connection. I could see the devices for the 1394, and Flex radio. They appeared normal. During my poking around, in the Flex Driver I found a tab called system. It has a print out of info about the devices. It indicated the Express card I was using was not compatable with DICE. I checked the other machines they all showed compatable 1394. I tried a couple of other Express cards but had the same results until I tried a SIIG card. Then all worked well. My first impression is that this is a good beta. While there are still some things to be found and cleared, it appears to be step in the right direction. We will still have to work thru the equipment issues, as manufactures are dropping built in 1394 support and external cards will be required. his is part of the march of technology. nothing stays static. Flex appears to have done a good turn here. Jim Fuller N7VR _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
